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Rossetti Family Correspondence

 Collection
Call Number: MS 23

Overview

Letters from and to Christina, Dante Gabriel, William Michael (and his wife Lucy Madox Brown) Rossetti and their father Gabriele Rossetti.

Dates

  • Creation: 1824-1913

Creator

Language of Materials

English, Italian, and French

Conditions Governing Access

No access restrictions.

Conditions Governing Use

Spencer Library staff may determine use restrictions dependent on the physical condition of manuscript materials.

Extent

.5 Linear Feet (approximately 250 items (2 boxes))

Arrangement

Collection is arranged by series.

Christina Georgina Rossetti

C.1
Literary manuscript
C.2
Letters from Christina Rossetti to various recipients.
C.3
Letters from Christina Rossetti to Mrs. Gilchrist.
C.4
Letters from Christina Rossetti to William Bryant.
C.5-6
Letters from Christina Rossetti to Frederic James Shields,
C.7
Letters received by Christina Rossetti.

Dante Gabriel Rossetti

D.1
Poems
D.2
Miscellaneous letters, separately catalogued
D.3
Letters to Swinburne
D.4
Letters to Shields
D.5
Letters to Ernest Gambart
D.6
Letters to Watts-Dunton
D.7
Signed photograph of Dante Gabriel Rossetti
D.8
Letters to Mrs Coronio
D.9
Letters received
D.10
Letters to Haydon
D.11
Letters to Blackmore

Elizabeth Siddall

E.1
Sentiment/Poem

Gabriele Rossetti

G.1
Letters to the Whitby's
G.2
Literary scrap

Lucy Madox (Brown) Rossetti

L.1
Miscellaneous letters
L.2
Letters received by Lucy Rosseti
L.3
Letters from Ford Madox Brown

William Michael Rossetti

W.1
Miscellaneous letters
W.2
Letters to Martin Colles
W.4
Letters to Mr. Little
W.5-6
Letters received

Olivia Rossetti Agresti

YA.1
Letters from or concerning Olivia Rossetti Agresti to Mr. and Mrs. Robertson Scott

Physical Location

MS 23

Immediate Source of Acquisition

Purchase, Gift W. D. Paden, and Bequest by Professor William D. Paden, 1956, 1958, 1979.

Title
Guide to the Rossetti Family Correspondence Collection
Subtitle
Rossetti Family Correspondence
Author
Finding aid prepared by ah, eh. Finding aid encoded by mrk.
Description rules
Describing Archives: A Content Standard
Language of description
Finding aid written in English.
Finding aid permalink
http://hdl.handle.net/10407/1774744049
Preferred citation
Rossetti Family Correspondence Collection, MS 23, Kenneth Spencer Research Library, University of Kansas.

Repository Details

Part of the University of Kansas. Kenneth Spencer Research Library Repository

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